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History of Internet

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who designed the X.25 protocol?

a)

NSFNET

b)

National Science Foundation

c)

Domain Name System

d)

Rémi Després

2.

When did commercial Internet service providers (ISPs) emerge in the United States?

a)

1986

b)

1995

c)

1989

d)

1970s

3.

Which organizations provided interconnectivity with the national supercomputing centers in the United States?

a)

Sprint, MCI and AT&T

b)

X.25 protocol

c)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

d)

Rémi Després and others

4.

Who is the British computer scientist who is credited with creating the World Wide Web?

a)

Steve Jobs

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Tim Berners-Lee

5.

What technology was responsible for the revolutionary impact of the Internet on culture, commerce, and technology in the mid-1990s?

a)

Satellite communication

b)

Analog modems

c)

Fiber optic cables

d)

Wireless routers

6.

Who developed the idea of a universal network?

a)

Paul Baran

b)

J. C. R. Licklider

c)

Robert Taylor

d)

Donald Davies

7.

What technology did ARPANET adopt for packet switching?

a)

Message blocks

b)

Time-sharing

c)

Data network

d)

Packet switching

8.

Where was the host-to-host protocol specified for ARPANET?

a)

` Bolt, Beranek, and Newman

b)

RAND Corporation

c)

IPTO

d)

UCLA

9.

Who pioneered a simplified end-to-end approach to internetworking at the IRIA?

a)

Leonard Kleinrock

b)

Louis Pouzin

c)

Vint Cerf

d)

Bob Metcalfe

10.

Which protocols evolved from the research of Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in 1974?

a)

Ethernet and PARC Universal Packet

b)

ARPA projects

c)

CYCLADES project

d)

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP)